Tlatilco Female Figurine Early Preclassic, ca. 1200-900 B.C.

of Type D-C9, standing on outspread legs, with a segmented belt draped over the wide hips and accenting her slender waist and torso, sash on the left hip, her head cast downward and coiffure with flattened plaits atop, and extending down the back. 

D. Daniel Michel Collection, Chicago, acquired by 1963

Montreal, Man-Eaters and Pretty Ladies: Early Art in Central Mexico, from the Gulf to the Pacific, 1500 B.C.-500 A.D., Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, January 15- March 8, 1971, catalogue to the exhibition by Leo Rosshandler, fig. 107 (not illustrated)

Excellent condition overall; good details on face.
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Females dominated the corpus of Tlatilco figurines by 1000 BC, a shift from the male ruler/priest figurines present in earlier Tlapacoya works. The cult of fertility and the emblems of power were well developed in Tlatilco figures, some used "Displayed Deity" imagery, others simply by the precise and refined portrayal of young women. For similar figures of Type D-C9, see Coe (1965: figs. 141-144).